Dawdle Duckling

by Toni Buzzeo

Book Overview

One Mama Duck paddles and quacks. One, two, three ducklings swim behind. But Dawdle Duckling doesn't follow dutifully behind Mama Duck like his three siblings do. He's too busy preening and playing,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803727313
• ISBN13: 9780803727311
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

A cute book

The good little ducklings stay with their momma, but Dawdle Duckling just wants to play and so he does not listen to his momma. But, there are dangers out there, and that shows Dawdle Ducking that it is time to get close to his momma! This is a cute book - brightly colored, with a fun set of illustrations. I liked the story, and my three-year-old liked saying the repeated lines along with me. We enjoyed this book and recommend it to you and your little reader!

My daughter loves this book and she is under 1!

The first time we heard this book, Toni Buzzeo actually read it. My daughter was only 6 months old and when Toni started to read it my daughter put all her attention to her and loved every minute of it. I got this book as soon as I could. She still loves it to this day!

New Favorite

"That's like me," my four year old said after our first reading of Dawdle Duckling. She totally related to day dreamer, Dawdle; she loves to do things her own way and her path is always filled with 'zigzags' and diversions that leave me trying to hurry her along. And like Dawdle, she knows that her mother is always waiting with open arms when trouble appears. After three readings she had the catchy refrain down and was 'reading' the book to herself. She loves the illustrations and picked right up on Dawdle's bent hat that sets him apart from his siblings. My daughter has proudly placed Toni Buzzeo's newest title in her special 'favorites' section of her bookshelf, and we are eager for more from Ms. Buzzeo.

Mom of dawdler laughed all the way through

Am I the only mom who always seemed to be saying, "Hurry up"? At one point, my oldest son said solemnly, "But I don't LIKE to hurry." Somehow it was a revelation. Oh. He doesn't LIKE to hurry. Anyone who has dealt with a dawdler will find this book hysterically funny...and great fun to share with kids. Toni Buzzeo has put her finger perfectly on the situation--and her dawdle duckling is a real charmer who doesn't get whapped with some punishment at the end but realizes for himself that there is a time to dawdle and a time to get zippy! Fabulous toddler book.

Dawdle Delights!

Toni Buzzeo shows extraordinary versatility in moving from her exquisitely lyrical picture-book debut, THE SEA CHEST (Fall '02), to this adorable story of a duckling who dawdles behind Mama and siblings. "NO! Quack! Quack!" says Dawdle Duckling, when Mama asks him to catch up. "I won't catch up." Children will love chiming in on Dawdle's refrain, and adults and children alike will be enchanted by the patterns in and music of Buzzeo's language. The illustrations wonderfully capture the playful fun of the text--a treat for the ear, and the eye, and the funnybone!